Brooklyn-raised grandmaster Fabiano Caruana is playing Magnus Carlsen for the 2018 World Chess Championship crown. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

The greatest chess match in history took place in the summer of 1972, when the reigning Russian World Champion Boris Spassky (1937-) was challenged by the American Bobby Fischer (1943-2008).

It's been a very long drought for Americans when it comes to the World Chess Championship. The last American to win was, famously, Bobby Fischer in 1972. Fischer defeated Boris Spassky in Iceland ...

Fabiano Caruana will be the first American to play for the World Chess Championship since Bobby Fischer in 1972. Caruana will face three-time champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway. Caruana has been a ...

Untold numbers throughout the world, fascinated by the high-stakes 1972 World Chess Championship and its symbolic status within the Cold War, became obsessed with the game. An exhibition at the World ...

The upcoming clash for the 2024 World Chess Championship title being held in Singapore, between D. Gukesh of India and Ding Liren of China, evokes many similarities with the 1972 world title clash ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on Sept. 2, 1972. This story was written by Robert Byrne.) REYKJAVIK, ICELAND, Sept. 1 – Bobby Rischer of Brooklyn is world chess champion, the first A… ...

Magnus Carlsen, the reigning World Chess Champion, right, and Fabiano Caruana, U.S. challenger during the First Move Ceremony (Round 1) of the FIDE World Chess Championship Match 2018 on November ...

The World Chess Championship goes into overtime Wednesday, ... If Caruana wins, he would be the first American champion since Bobby Fischer in 1972.

SAINT LOUIS, March 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Candidates Tournament held in Berlin, Germany, has come to a conclusion and, at the end of a grueling 18 days of chess, American Grandmaster Fabiano ...

The World Chess Championship 1972 pitted east v west, with the United States’ Bobby Fischer playing defending champion Boris Spassky of the then Soviet Union.

Bobby Fischer tonight won the World chess championship from Boris Spassky in a 21st-game victory to become the first American modern world champion. Fischer thus fulfilled a childhood dream that ...